The site of the battle between Cao and Liu was in Pingting, more than ten miles east of Nanjuju.

The south is located in the south of Wancheng and the north of Jianyang, and since ancient times, it is one of the traffic arteries connecting Nanyang and Nanjun, so there are many wars.

In the south and west is the water, and at this time, thousands of small boats are densely spread all over the river.

As the Nanyang White River in later generations, this river is also a large river, with more than 100 meters in the narrow place, and six or seven hundred meters in the wide place, or even more than 1,000 meters.

And if it can be used as a transport, it can naturally transport troops. Shen Chen defeated the Jiangdong Navy Division in the Battle of Baqiu five days earlier, and after solving his worries, he immediately marched north with his army and entered the river by boat.

In the howling southeast wind, the boat sailed against the wind and water, and the mighty and mighty passed the thorny sun, and when they saw the south gathering from a distance, they stopped at the village wharf and docked.

At this time, Nan Juju had long been out of people.

Cao Cao relocated the population, and a large number of people either fled into the deep mountains and old forests, or were forcibly relocated by Cao Cao, so that the surrounding area of Wancheng became a barren land, with uninhabited villages and untended wheat fields, becoming deserted.

Shen Chen, Su Fei and others led their generals to disembark, and after resting for a while, about 30,000 people, including Huang Zhong's troops, formed a military formation and began to move slowly in the direction of Pingting in the east.

The team soon approached Pingting, and when it was about eight miles away, the scouts had already returned to report that Liu Beijun and Cao Cao's army were fighting together.

"General Huang, Su Dudu, I will take the first step, go to the battlefield to find a place to watch the situation between the enemy and us, and you will lead the army later."

When Shen Chen learned that the fight had begun, he immediately said to Huang Zhong, Su Fei and the others.

At this time, Huang Zu was not there, and during the battle of Baqiu, Huang Zu vomited blood because he was too excited, and his health was not very good.

His age is actually a few years older than Huang Zhong, and even his son is in his forties, so he can't withstand such a toss, so he is currently recuperating with Liu Qi in Jingling.

After there was no Huang Zu, Su Fei, as the governor of Jiangxia, became the third person in the Jiangxia Navy except for Shen Chen and Huang Zu, and Huang Zhongbu belonged to Liu Pan and did not belong to each other with the Jiangxia Navy, so Shen Chen asked the two of them to lead their own soldiers and horses to follow behind.

"Yui!"

Huang Zhong and Su Fei immediately responded.

Shen Chen, under the protection of Zhang Nanqu and other generals and more than 100 personal guards, rode quickly towards the battlefield.

Among these guards, in addition to Zhang Nanqu and a group of old subordinates who followed him very early, there were more than a dozen young people, the eldest was twenty-four or five years old, and the younger one seemed to have just reached the crown.

They are Shen Chen's personal disciples Huo Yang, Wu Dang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi and others, except for the sixteen-year-old Zhou Budo who did not come because he was too young, when the class was held in Longzhong Township, the earliest batch of disciples basically came.

Because they've grown up.

When the fire burned Zigui, Shen Chen only brought Wu Dang and Shan Yi, and the two of them were adults and crowns at that time, so they could follow him to practice. Some of the rest of the disciples were fifteen or sixteen years old, and some were eighteen or nineteen years old, so naturally they couldn't bring them out.

Now five years have passed, and these disciples have been reading and practicing calligraphy in the countryside every day according to Shen Chen's instructions, exercising, learning fencing and bowing and arrows, and with certain martial arts, they want to follow Shijun to make contributions.

After the Battle of Baqiu, Shen Chen returned to Xiangyang again, Xiangyang was surrounded by Guan Yu's army, and those disciples learned that Shen Chen was back, so they called friends and immediately came to defect.

When he was a minor, Shen Chen naturally couldn't agree to their request, but now that these people have grown up, he will no longer stop them from serving the country.

Among them, Huo Yang, Wu Dang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi and more than a dozen others have good martial arts, and their physique is also very strong, and they are full of poetry and books, both civil and military, so Shen Chen asked them to follow him as personal guards, intending to train them in the direction of generals.

And Xie Hui, Zhang Li, Hu Wei, Li Qiu and other more than 20 people have average martial arts, and when they meet experienced veterans on the battlefield, it is estimated that it is a matter of two knives, so they can't be allowed to be soldiers, so they are arranged to do low-level clerical work in the army, and develop in the direction of staff officers, assistants, and clerks.

The teacher took them to the battlefield to teach them personally, and as for their future creation, it depends on their personal ability and comprehension. If they didn't have the ability, even if they were holding the title of Shen Chen's disciple, Shen Chen would not let them get to a very high position.

After all, if you forcibly promote your own students to a position that is not in line with their abilities, it will not only harm them, but also many people. Just like Zhao Kuo was obviously unable to recover the situation, King Zhao still asked him to command the Battle of Changping.

At this time, Shen Chen's horse galloped, and a hundred or so war horses splashed a lot of dust, and in a moment's effort, he was already seen far away on the battlefield in the east.

I saw a large number of Cao Cao's army and Liu Bei's army fighting together in the distance, and the battlefield was more than ten miles longitudinal and horizontal, and even the edge of the west had sporadic battles.

More than a dozen Liu Bei's soldiers were scattered by the Cao army and fled to the wilderness, and there were more than twenty pursuers behind him, Shen Chen saw this scene, and with a roar, a hundred or so war horses went towards the group of Cao troops.

"Withdraw!"

When a marquis of the Cao army saw that a group of cavalrymen suddenly appeared, wearing completely different military uniforms from them, he immediately knew that something was wrong and hurriedly wanted to escape.

But the explosive power of the human leg is far inferior to the horse's leg, and it chased after it in an instant, and more than 20 people were cut into corpses by random knives.

Among them, Shan Yi is the most brave, he has participated in the battle of Zigui, personally killed the enemy, and was instructed by Zhang Fei, martial arts are the highest among many peers, and more than 20 Cao soldiers have died in his hands.

When Cao Jun was killed, Liu Beijun's more than ten people knelt down on one knee to thank him, and Shen Chen asked condescendingly, "What is the situation on the battlefield now?" ”

A chief replied: "Cao Cao led the main force to attack General Wen's troops, and we fought fiercely with the other part of the main force of Cao's army, and the battlefield was too chaotic, and we don't know the specific situation." ”

"Do you know where the Yellow Gate soldiers are?"

Shen Chen asked again.

Before he came, he had already sent someone to communicate with his father Shen Zhen and uncle Deng Zhao, and he also knew their formation and position.

It's just that now that the war has started, once the battle starts, even the most clever generals can't make every soldier act according to their own wishes, so now he doesn't know where the Yellow Gate soldiers are currently located.

"I don't know, at first they were on the west side of our big array."

The chief replied.

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "Go by yourself." ”

"Thank you, General."

Shi Chang said gratefully, he actually didn't know Shen Chen.

But Shen Chen helped them kill Cao Jun, and at the same time wore a battle armor and a hundred personal guards, at least he was also a military horse, so he called him a general, just like calling handsome guys and beauties when they met in later generations.

Shen Chen tapped his chin in response, then turned his horse's head, found a small hillside not far away, and rode up, standing on a high place to look at the battlefield situation from afar.

As a township pavilion, Pingting is surrounded by villages, fields, forests and some small hills.

It was only because Cao Cao forcibly relocated the population that the village was deserted, and although the wheat that could be harvested in May next year was still growing tenaciously at this time, there were countless weeds in the field, competing with the wheat for nutrients, so that the wheat grains were thin and almost fruitless.

Between these villages, fields, forests and other terrains, Cao Jun in black uniforms and Liu Beijun in orange uniforms fought together, and the situation on both sides was extremely grim.

On a plain about three or four miles to the northeast, the main force of Liu Bei's army was fighting fiercely with the main force of Cao's army.

It's just that this kind of strangulation itself is also extremely expensive, and the battlefield has gradually changed from tight at the beginning to slowly loosen up now, and a large number of peripheral soldiers have been isolated from the formation and run to the peripheral fields to continue fighting.

The group of soldiers that Shen Chen saved just now was scattered by Cao Jun from the edge formation, so Cao Jun and Liu Beijun now belong to the stage of attrition and confrontation.

A little further northwest, a battle was also taking place, and the Ganning division joined forces with Zhang Xiu's cavalry to attack Li Tong's division.

It's a pity that although the number of Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu is more than that of Li Tong, the two are not subordinate to each other, and they have no friendship.

"Master, look over there."

Wu Dang pointed in one direction and said, "There are thousands of soldiers and horses on the edge of the battlefield who have not moved for a long time, maybe it is our Huangmen soldiers." ”

When Shen Chen later joined the crown, he returned to the countryside of Huangmen Pavilion to teach, and many disciples came to defect, so Wu Dang, Huo Yang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi and others also often trained with the Huangmen soldiers, and they had long been familiar with them as their own people.

Wu Tao's eyes were better, he squinted his eyes and looked at it from afar, and said: "Shijun, that is indeed our team, and there seems to be a Deng character written on their military flag." ”

Shen Chen looked over, due to the terrain problem, there were many fields, villages and forests blocking the view, and the position of those soldiers was about four miles away from Shen Chen's side, and the flanks and rear of Liu Bei's main force were arrayed, and they were too far away to see clearly.

However, the military flag was fluttering, and the color seemed to be indeed the flag of the Yellow Gate soldiers.

"That's my uncle."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "Where is Zhang Nan?" ”

"The end will be."

Zhang Nan came over.

Shen Chen said: "You lead fifty cavalry, go over there, find General Gan Ninggan, and ask him to prepare, and our main army in the rear will immediately come to help, be careful of accidentally injuring your companions." ”

"Yui."

Zhang Nan roared, and took fifty cavalry to the battlefield, he went not to fight, but to report to Gan Ning, to prevent the Jiangxia Navy Division from coming, due to the tense and exciting battlefield situation, resulting in the occurrence of an attack without distinguishing between the enemy and us.

Shen Chen said again: "Where is Qu Dare? ”

"The end will be."

"You immediately go back to the headquarters and inform Su Fei and General Huang Lao, after they go to the battlefield, first send people to contact the two generals Zhang Xiu and Ganning, and then help them from the flank, and annihilate that part of the men and horses first."

"Yui!"

Qu Dang took a few guards and left.

Shen Chen said to many students on the left and right: "Your Mr. Zhuge asked the Yellow Gate soldiers to wait on the side because our Yellow Gate soldiers are heavily armored foot soldiers, and they have to be tired and paralyzed to the ground in no more than a quarter of an hour each battle. So he needs to order them to attack at the most critical moment, but the temporary command may be wrong, so I will go there myself and wait for me to come. ”

"Yui."

The crowd was amazed.

At that moment, Shen Chenle turned his horse's head, went down the hillside, and galloped towards the southeast.

The battlefield was already extremely chaotic at this time, the soldiers of the two armies were intertwined, their teeth were intertwined, and there were scattered everywhere, and fifty or sixty war horses were whizzing past the marginal battlefield, and almost no one dared to provoke this kind of small-scale battle.

But a moment later, they encountered hard stubble, and not far away, more than 200 scattered Cao soldiers rushed out of a small forest and stopped the road.

These Cao Jun were obviously broken up by Liu Beijun's main force, and they suddenly appeared, and they knew that they were not their own people just by looking at the opponent's uniform, so they immediately shouted twice, howling like wolves in their mouths, and rushed towards them.

If it was in the era of stirrups and Takahashi saddles, the infantry would certainly not dare to charge the cavalry. But the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in this era was far inferior to that of later, plus their number was four times that of Shen Chen's side, not to mention the impact cavalry, even if it was an impact on the deployed gun and shield array.

Seeing this, Shen Chen knew that they had to fight, because on their left side were small forests, and on their right side were village fields, and the horses had to walk on the main road, and it was easy to get stuck when they ran into the fields with soft ground.

At that moment he also shouted, and ordered the soldiers to dismount and fight.

Again, that's the same sentence.

In the era when there were no stirrups and Takahashi saddles, cavalry often relied on mobility to pursue the enemy, and then dismounted to be used as foot soldiers, except for Gongsun Chan, who made this low-level mistake, and the light cavalry would hardly directly attack the placed infantry formation.

Although the enemy was four times larger, Shen Chen was brave and fierce, and the tiger knife in his hand kept slashing, and the blood splashed on his face, without even blinking an eye.

And under his leadership, the students such as Shan Yi and Wu Dang around him were also extremely fierce, and suddenly all kinds of roars, echoes, weapons blocking, and miserable howls were endless, and in less than ten minutes, thirty or forty Cao soldiers were killed by them like chopping melons and vegetables.

On the other hand, Shen Chen's more than 60 personal guards, except for two who were besieged to death, most of them were safe and sound, they cooperated closely, and when there were fewer people and more people, they kept counterattacking and killing many Cao soldiers.

"These people are amazing."

"Withdraw!"

"Run."

Seeing that the idea was piercing, these scattered soldiers hurriedly fled in all directions, and scattered in an instant.

"Let's go!"

Shen Chen didn't pursue either, and now the top priority was to return to the Huangmen Pavilion formation.

Soon after another seven or eight minutes of galloping, after passing a small wood, I saw the troops resting in the wilderness not far away.

The Yellow Gate soldiers were heavily armored foot soldiers, and the ancient heavy armor was worn on the body, and the physical strength was exhausted after less than ten minutes of fighting.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang believed that the task of this army was to rest first, and when it was at the critical moment, it would suddenly make a surprise attack and surprise the enemy.

So now they are all honestly staying about a mile behind Liu Beijun's main force, waiting for the order to come.

Guards were set up on the periphery, and when someone suddenly broke in, hundreds of soldiers immediately rushed over.

"Who?"

Someone shouted.

"Me."

Shen Chen took off his helmet.

"Ah Chen, oh no, the general is back!"

Then Qu Junhou, who led the team, was a clan brother of Shen Chen, and when he saw Shen Chen, he was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Captain, the general is back!" ”

"Knock knock knock."

A few fast horses galloped over.

Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen, Shen Tao and others rushed to Shen Chen one after another.

"Chen'er, oh no, General!"

"The general is back!"

"Meet the General!"

The crowd was very excited.

The organizational structure of the Huangmen soldiers is mostly Deng Shen's second clan relatives, but Shen Chen stipulates that in the army, he must be called a position and not a relative, so even Shen Chen's father, Shen Zhen, has to salute Shen Chen.

Shen Chen hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and said in return: "Father, uncle, brother, now that it's a war, I won't catch up with you." ”

"General, give the order."

Deng Zhao restrained his excited expression and said solemnly: "We have been ready for a long time. ”

Shen Chen raised his head.

At this time, many Yellow Gate soldiers in the rear had already heard the movement and swarmed in.

In an instant, 3,000 soldiers surrounded him.

That moment.

A long-lost sense of integration came to my heart.

No matter how good Jiangxia is the sailor.

That's not his troops either.

And this Yellow Gate soldier is the strong army he brought up single-handedly!

"Herald, armor!"

Shen Chen turned over his horse, raised the tiger courage knife in his hand and roared angrily: "Many fellow villagers, companions, the fire in Huangmen Pavilion in Xuzhou has never dissipated in my heart, and the enemy is right in front of me. ”

"Blood debt and blood payment!"

"Blood debt and blood payment!"

"Blood debt and blood payment!"

The high shouts soared into the sky, and all the Yellow Gate soldiers were like rainbows!

The sound of clanging armor clashing was endless.

(End of chapter)